CHICO MENDES National Council of Rubber Tappers

Brazil

Rubber Tapper

Learned to read.

Rights of workers.

Deforestation

¨  Prefix: de (away from) ¨  Root word: forest

¨  Suffix: ation (act or process)

Mr. Mendes became a teacher.

Literacy = able to read and write

Rural Workers Union Rights and Reform

Share the land !

Demonstrations Arrests

National Council of Rubber Trappers

Rubber trappers were killed.

Rest In Peace

Help the environment.

“I will kill Chico Mendes.”

home family

1998 = murdered = saved the forests